 We're here with Rob today, and he's going to talk all about his new goblin veerman army I know I'm confused as well I immediately when he said to talk about an army I went to grab all my goblins, and then you remind me this This is sci-fi. Yeah, and as yet. I can't do an entire army. You've not yet got there No, I mean I can dream and try and convince one is to do it But no, so I've I've got the next best thing in my opinion, which is fairy goblins Which are the veerman? Yep, that is essentially what they are isn't it. Yeah I mean you can tell by the fact that I've taken up almost an entire tabletop that I clearly have a predilection for horde armies And the veerman are probably Maybe apart from the plague are probably the biggest horde arm unless you want to sacrifice loads of gcps soldiers They're probably the one where you most need the numbers of troops Yeah You somehow always managed to make us look bad by picking the army that needs the most models to be painted I've always managed to paint them all well before we've even finished building ours I mean, that's my main intention is to make everyone else look bad But no, I mean I did I did cheat slightly By the fact that I did sort of take part in some of the beta testing and things like that for For firefight, so I built this army originally actually as a dead zone strike team And then slowly over a couple of months actually built it up. So it was kind of However many points this is basically to give me all the options I could possibly need for a firefight force Excellent. And do you have a favorite model out of what you've built and painted so far? That that's actually a really tough one. So I do obviously you've got the things like the Tunner, which is a great model really easy to put together the mutant rat fiend Which has made the move from kings of war into space because I'm sure they have Mutated rats in space as well. But I think actually my my favorite one might be one the little veerman troops because why did I took some of the Heads from the racking for kings of war because they actually mix in quite well And then did this one guy here just casually shooting up into the sky hoping for the best Maybe trying to shoot an enforcer intercepted down or something like that So I think weirdly he's my favorite just because It's so weird It's the great thing about the racking and veerman in the same way as goblins, isn't it? They just have so much character that you can do fun models like that. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think they I guess in my head the the veerman are a bit more menacing than goblins. I think they're not quite as not quite as cheeky Yeah, not quite as cheeky. They are more angry Um, but I think yeah, you can have a bit of fun with them and do some different things So yeah, the racking heads just because I'm gonna have so many spread out that actually some of the weapons so for example the I can never get it the right way around this is like when Ronnie calls night Crawlers night stalkers or the way around is the night Stalkers I'm gonna say the stalkers the ones that are normally the the stabby ones So I use some of the weapons from the the racking on those just to give them a bit more variety as well But yeah, the two kits really combine very nicely. Yeah, they're perfectly matched, don't they? Yeah But just go through Roughly what it is you've you've got built together all together then Yeah, I mean so other than just a lot of rats. Yeah, I mean that that's mainly what it is I mean, I've got so obviously got the tunneller at the back Um, I would quite like to do another tunneller with the extra transport So at the minute I've only got the one section, but you can extend them to make them carry more rats And I love the idea in the rules that they kind of a rupt up out of the ground and then all the rats spill out So I don't know if For those people who've read first strike There's a great bit in that where all the rats that are coming out all the tunnel runners Start coming out of the ground as well and start going towards the enemy Um, so yeah, and probably need to expand that one. But yeah, you've got the tunneller. You've got the mutant rat fiend You've got three tunnel runners here the rumbler Then obviously you've got a lot of different crawlers and stalkers. So all the way around they are Like I said, because it's a horde army I tend to get run them in like groups of 10 because you can add extra ones Although they're normally five you can expand them up to 10 and then you can add terrors to them as well There's like drones. So they're pretty useful particularly for they The assaulting ones to kind of give them a bit of extra oomph I've got lots of nightmares here the big dudes With a range of different weapons kind of from the two-handed drills to the The spitters and another drill there to heavy drill as well I've got the new claw pack leader. It's pretty cool the dead zone one And then just a couple of leaders and then some Bin rats as my son calls them these ones at the front But yeah, I think I don't think I could run all this at once So I probably need to perfect it and have a look and I'm hoping to use this A northern kings event that's coming up in july actually. So I'll probably take well Yeah, I probably will take for him and actually These are the ones I've played the most with Yeah, it's always nice having a larger army than you actually need isn't it? And then you can you can mix it up depending on the scenario, but also it means you don't get bored of Playing the same stuff all the time. Yeah, you can you can mix and match Yeah, exactly. And it and it's absolutely brilliant obviously for dead zone because I've got so I've got every Poss part of my brood mother weirdly. I've got every combination of them you can have So yeah, it's been really good to play them in dead zone as well and try different things with that But yeah, I think gives me a bit of wiggle room when I realize okay. Well, maybe this isn't quite working I've got the three leaders now with the pat leader so I can use some more of the command options, but Yeah, I've really enjoyed sort of putting these together This was actually the first Large-scale sci-fi army I've ever done. So I've never played any of the other games um, so for me, this was really great and it was A sort of really weird experience to kind of go. Oh, wow. Hang on wait a minute I've painted 40 models here because I'm used to kings of war and it's not just one horde That's almost my entire troops. So weird not trying to stick them all to one base. Yeah Yeah, yeah, I just kind of pop them off all the time. But yeah kind of coming from a background of doing goblins where uh, you know A horde of 40 goblins is where the 125 points or something It was quite refreshing actually to come to this and go. Oh, I can actually do an army in Well, I mean a couple of them and then tie here. So, uh, yeah, I've really enjoyed it and I think Kind of working on some new stuff now as well. Excellent. Well, thank you very much, Rob My pleasure always are happy to talk about rats More happy to talk about goblins, but I'm sure we'll get you back for some gold goblin talk at some point soon Is that a promise? Absolutely. Okay good. I'll come back in that case. Cheers